Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK. Connor ...

where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr. Person recalled that he and a White Freedom Rider, James Peck, had been assigned to ...

Responsible government officials, organizations must stand up to his strong-arm tactics and human and civil rights violations ...

Though not as physically large a man as Homan, Bull Connor, emboldened by his ties ... clever plan in 1963 to discourage civil rights “freedom riders” by holding back his police and giving ...